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Queer Sex at the altar - Caribbean IRN Update May, June, July, August, Sept, Oct 2026

Extract of 'Yesterdays' by Harold Sunny Ladoo (1974) Queer sex at the altar  Jamaica born Marlon James' 2026 novel  The Disappearers   tells a story of about a group of gay men who survive the murder of one of their friends 1980s Jamaica.  More than fifty years ago, Trinidad and Tobago-born Harold Sonny Ladoo wrote about Sook - 'a village queer'and the 'affairs' he was having in a 1955 Trinidad in Yesterdays . Sook took two of his first time lovers to a 'Christian Church' for the first time encounters.  Two different kinds of literary imaginations of Caribbean queer life, based perhaps on multiple realities.    Critical Fabulation The Eswick J.S. Padmore Friends For Life Digital Collection is "a curation of Trinidad and Tobago’s oldest LGBTQI+ community organization and is named after founding member Eswick J.S. Padmore (1966-2024) to celebrate the organization’s rich legacy of communal care and social justice activism. The archive contains 4...